Monthly Archives: March 2010

March 31, 2010

Fox Nation: Fair, Balanced, Biased, and Incredibly Gullible

It just isn’t ethical journalism to run stories because you wish they were true. Continue reading →

Filed under Around the World, Journalism & Media, Popular Culture, The Internet

Tagged as bias, climate change, competence, ethics, Fox news, Glenn Beck, hoax, independent judgment, journalistic ethics, journalistic objectivity, satire, Sean Hannity, Snopes

March 31, 2010

Art Ethics: We Are Not Bowls of Fruit

During his legendary questioning by Clarence Darrow in the Scopes trial, Williams Jennings Bryan famously answered one of Darrow’s queries by saying, “I don’t think about things I don’t think about.” (Darrow’s rejoinder: “Do you think about the things you … Continue reading →

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Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Business & Commercial, Daily Life, Etiquette and manners, Professions

Tagged as absolutism, art, autonomy, caring, dignity, fairness, honesty, informed consent, privacy, respect, The Golden Rule, Utilitarianism

March 31, 2010

Ethics Test for Republicans and Conservatives

The President’s new energy initiative will be an ethics test for Republicans and conservative critics of Obama. Continue reading →

Mad Scientist Ethics

Mad scientists have to be ethical too. Continue reading →

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Filed under Around the World, Bioethics, Health and Medicine, Research and Scholarship, Science & Technology

Tagged as epidemics, ethics, informed consent, science. medical research, Syfy Channel, Utilitarianism, vaccines

March 30, 2010

Climate Science Ethics: The Lovelock Interview

A great scientist frankly discusses the ethics of science and climate change. Continue reading →

Unethical Website of the Month: Bloomberg News

Don’t trust this website. Continue reading →

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Filed under Business & Commercial, Citizenship, Government & Politics, Journalism & Media, The Internet, Unethical Websites

Tagged as "Tea Party" movement, Bloomberg News Service, ethics, fairness, health care reform, Heidi Przybyla, honesty, hypocrisy, infrastructure, integrity, job creation, journalistic ethics, Medicare, respect, socialism, trustworthiness

March 29, 2010

Dubious Ethics Studies, Part II

Going “green” doesn’t make us mean, but being mean might make us go “green”…or not. Continue reading →

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Filed under Around the World, Daily Life, Research and Scholarship, Science & Technology, U.S. Society

Tagged as "The King's Pass", "The Ruddigore Fallacy", "The Saint's Excues", caring, charity, Chen-Bo Zhong, environmentalism, ethics, honesty, Journal of Psychological Science, kindness, niceness, Nina Mazar, Pope Benedict, Ralph Waldo Emerson, rationalizations, research, responsibility, social responsibility, social science

March 29, 2010

Death Video Ethics

The legitimate sensitivity of a few can not justify censoring information for everyone else. Continue reading →

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Filed under U.S. Society

Tagged as caring, censorship, Dale Earnhardt, Dan Solove, Danish cartoons, Dawn Brancheau, dignity, Duke lacrosse case, empathy, ethics, fairness, First Amendment, freedom, Freedom of Speech, Freedom of the press, Kelly McBride, liberty, Nikki Catsour, Poynter Institute, respect, SeaWorld, senistivity, The Golden Rule, YouTube

March 29, 2010

Charles Leerhsen’s Unethical Pit Bull Vendetta Continues

Charles Leerhsen’s unethical and bigoted vendetta against pit bulls continues. Continue reading →

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Filed under Animals, U.S. Society

Tagged as American Bulldog, American Pit Bull Terrier, American Staffordshire Terrier, anger, animal cruelty, anti-Semitism, bigotry, Bull Terrier., Charles Leerhsen, dog-fighting, dogs, ethics, fairness, fear, Fear-mongering, hate, pit bulls, prejudice, profiling, risk aversion, Staffordshire Bull Terrier, The Daily Beast

March 29, 2010

Dubious Ethics Studies, Part I.

What ethics studies supposedly signify often tell us more about the biases of the analysts than the the behavior of the subjects. Here’s one on media bias. Continue reading →

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Filed under Government & Politics, Journalism & Media, Research and Scholarship, U.S. Society

Tagged as "American Politics Research", balance, bias, ethics, fairness, honesty, journalistic ethics, journalistic objectivity, Malcolm Gladwell, news media, newspapers, President Obama, research ethics, Sen. John McCain, social science, Yale

Monthly Archives: March 2010

Fox Nation: Fair, Balanced, Biased, and Incredibly Gullible

Ethics Test for Republicans and Conservatives

Climate Science Ethics: The Lovelock Interview

Unethical Website of the Month: Bloomberg News

Death Video Ethics

Charles Leerhsen’s Unethical Pit Bull Vendetta Continues

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